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James started his career in video games as News Editor on Nintendo Life. Since leaving in 2012 to join Nintendo of Europe, James has risen through the ranks to become NoE's Senior Product PR & Corporate Communications Manager.
News Top Spin 4 My Player Trailer Serves Up a Career Mode
Make it your way
2K Sports games are known for their immersive career modes; NBA 2K11 featured a highly acclaimed My Player mode, and upcoming tennis title Top Spin 4 is looking to do the same on a different kind of court. You'll start off a rookie, earning experience points and winning new fans as you progress through a range of tournaments,...
News Shape Up with DLC for The Fight: Lights Out
Get fighting fit
Move-exclusive brawler The Fight: Lights Out is a real test of any gamer's stamina, requiring plenty of energy to make it through the ranks of the combat underworld. To help you out in your quest, Coldwood Interactive has released a new set of downloadable content to give your fighter a bit of a boost. The Timesaver Pack gives you...
News Killzone 3 Retro Map Pack Available on PlayStation Store
In case you didn't pre-order
One of the many flavours of Killzone 3 available to customers who pre-ordered contained the so-called Retro Map Pack, a pair of maps from predecessor Killzone 2: Salamun Market and Blood Gracht. If you weren't able to pick up the maps for free, you're now able to download them from the PlayStation Store for $4.99, or...
News Try Out Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 with a Move-Enabled Demo
Coming March 8th
Last year's Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 divided players with its Move controls, but soon you'll be able to decide for yourself if follow-up Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: The Masters does a better job with a free demo. Coming to PlayStation Network on 8th March in North America, the demo will be completely Move compatible and shows off the...
Out Today Killzone 3 (North America)
At last!
After the betas and the demos stoked your bloodlust, you can finally purchase Killzone 3 across North America today. Fully playable with PlayStation Move for enhanced accuracy, the game also supports the new PlayStation Move Sharp Shooter accessory that houses the Move and Navigation in a beefy-looking rifle. If you're jumping into Killzone...
News Know Your Enemy with Killzone 3's Facebook Application
Warning: causes arguments
It's easy to tell who's your enemy in Killzone 3 – the glowing red eyes and guns pointed at your face are a dead giveaway – but in real life it's not so simple. It's a good job, then, that Sony and Guerilla Games has created the Killzone 3 Know Your Enemies app for Facebook that aims to help you sort your friends from...
News Buzz! Developer Concerned by Move's Popularity
Eyeing up the opposition
Relentless Software has put out two Move-enabled titles already, melodic competition-fest Buzz! The Ultimate Music Quiz and cheery homicide investigator Blue Toad Murder Files, that have both been reasonably well-received. Company co-founder Andrew Eades spoke to Eurogamer about the studio's future in the motion market and...
News PlayStation Move Heroes Dev Diary Emerges from Wormhole
Or California, one of the two
Californian developer Nihilistic Software is the studio entrusted with bringing three key Sony franchises – Ratchet & Clank, Jak & Daxter and Sly Cooper – to PlayStation 3, and now the studio has opened its doors for a behind-the-scenes video to explain the process that brought the six heroes together...
News Move Can Be Used to Measure the Earth's Rotation
Take that, Kinect!
Move's not had quite as many cool non-gaming applications as Kinect, but this video does a lot to redress the balance. As you know, the PlayStation Move controller contains plenty of motion-sensing technology, including a magnetic field sensor and three gyroscopes, which make it accurate enough to detect something none of us...
News Plus Members Join Forces with Move Heroes Next Week
Free demo on 1st March
Upcoming mascot 'em up PlayStation Move Heroes is Sony's big, non-Killzone 3 Move release in the next month, and players who subscriber to the company's premium PlayStation Plus service will get to try out the title weeks before its launch. Subscribers in North America will receive early access to the PlayStation Move Heroes...
News Kevin Butler Lands a Double Advert Whammy for Killzone 3
Shows Sharp Shooter too
All our readers know there's only one way to play Killzone 3, and that's with PlayStation Move. Fictitious Sony Vice President Kevin Butler knows this too, and he wants to spread the word the only way he knows how: advertising. The first video shows the PlayStation Move Sharp Shooter in Butler's paws while the second focuses...
News de Blob 2 Trailer Awash with Colourful Antisocial Undertones
Get INKT
THQ's colourful platformer de Blob 2 reaches PlayStation Move next week, with a new rendered trailer setting up the ongoing battle between the evil INKT Corporation and the underground rebellion. There's full stereoscopic 3D support for owners of 3DTVs as well as PlayStation Move controls to boot, which should hopefully prove worthy...
News Apparently Portal 2 Does Not Have Full Move Support
Confusion reigns
Yesterday we reported that Portal 2 will feature PlayStation Move support, owing to a German interview translated by Eurogamer. Now developer Valve has stepped in to say "remember when someone said PlayStation Move support was coming to Portal 2, and you were like, 'No way!' and then I was all, 'well actually it's not.' That...
News Portal 2 to Feature Complete PlayStation Move Support
Updated: Might be a lie
Update: As new details have come to light, read our updated post Apparently Portal 2 Does not Have Full Move Support. Original post follows. Upcoming first-person teleportation puzzler Portal 2 will receive complete PlayStation Move support, according to Eurogamer. Valve's Chet Faliszek described the feature as an apology for...
News CTA Digital Creates Three Move Sniper Rifles in One
For when one just isn't enough
There are tonnes of PlayStation Move accessories available, including sniper rifles, pistols and assault rifles, but what about a shell that combined all three? That's the thinking at CTA Digital, the company behind a new customisable add-on. An accessory that can be transformed into an assault rifle, shotgun or...
News Ubisoft Officially Announces Dance on Broadway for March 17th
Gives it the ol' jazz hands
We've known for a while that Dance on Broadway was coming to Move, but now Ubisoft has announced an official release date for the title and given a little insight into the game's tracklisting too. Dancers can get their groove on with one controller each or double-up for more advanced play, shaking it to tracks including...
News Funky Lab Rat Drops in Price in US Store Update
Rat goes cheap
As well as the Killzone 3 single-player demo, a few pieces of Move-related DLC received price reductions in yesterday's American PlayStation Store update. Telekinetic puzzle-platformer Funky Lab Rat dropped in price to $6.99 from $9.99, and downloadable content for R.U.S.E. and MAG also had a healthy amount snipped off their price...
Out Today Killzone 3 Single-Player Demo (North America)
Give 'em Hel(ghan)
If you've been dabbling in the Killzone 3 multiplayer beta you might be ready for a new challenge, in which case we have good news: the single-player demo is available for North American PlayStation Network members right now. The demo was released to PlayStation Plus subscribers last week but is now freely available for all...
News Move Creator Keen to Open Controller Up to PC Coders
On your Marks
We reported recently that we could see an update to allow PlayStation Move to work on PC, and it seems the driving force behind such an update could be none other than Dr Richard Marks, the controller's creator. Speaking to Ars Technica, Dr Marks mentioned his desire to open the controller to a wider range of creative folks: For a...
News Here's Looking at Yoostar 2's Complete Clip Collection
Amounts to more than a hill of beans
Scenes from cinematic classics including Casablanca, The Godfather and The Princess Bride rub shoulders with Along Came Polly and The Nutty Professor in Yoostar 2, the movie karaoke game coming from Blitz Games Studios and Yoostar Entertainment Group coming to Move next month. It's not all Hollywood cinema:...
News Get Fit with Mel B Gets iPhone App to Track Your Progress
Never be away from your fitness goal
Move fitness title Get Fit with Mel B is one of the better keep fit titles available on PS3, and now its take on getting up and active has been beefed-up with an official application for iOS devices. The app lets you keep track of your exertions in conjunction with the Get Fit with Mel B website, letting you...
News My Fitness Coach: Club Release Date Confirmed as March 18th
We Dare slips too
The other day we posted a news story that My Fitness Coach: Club was set to be released on February 18th, but we've just received clarification from publisher Ubisoft that the game is in fact down to launch in Europe on Friday March 18th 2011. There was a double-whammy of release date changes from Ubisoft, in fact, as bizarre...
News Heavy Fire: Afghanistan to Blast Move with On-Rails Action
War comes to Move
There's no shortage of gritty first-person shooters on PlayStation Move – Killzone 3 and MAG both stand out – but they can sometimes be confusing for gamers not used to controlling movement and guns at the same time. That won't be a problem with Heavy Fire: Afghanistan, an on-rails shooter for Move from Polish developers Teyon...
News PlayStation Move Heroes Story Trailer Sets the Scene
Join the Interuniversal Hero Games
Ever wonder how the six lead characters in PlayStation Move Heroes came together for the first time in Sony history? If you guessed "a gravitational anomaly has opened a rift in space-time, creating a wormhole into another world" then give yourself a big pat on the back. In order to decide which of the...
